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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76630124&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A dozen fluffy white kittens with piercing blue eyes frolic in a wire cage, perched perilously atop a pen containing two African lion cubs. Neighborhood schoolchildren stop to feed sunflower seeds to a chained monkey, while three red foxes cower in their curbside enclosure from the street noise.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76627823&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A fleet of South Korean warships fired artillery and dropped anti-submarine bombs Thursday in a large-scale military exercise off the west coast despite North Korea's warnings that such drills will drive the peninsula to the brink of war.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76627796&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A court in Lhasa has given a Tibetan a suspended death sentence for taking part in riots that erupted in the remote Himalayan region two years ago, an overseas Tibetan rights group said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76625824&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra denied in a television interview that he supported any violence blamed on anti-government protesters in Bangkok and called terrorism charges against him politically motivated.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76623940&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. Homeland Security officials have asked Houston authorities to watch for a member of a Somalia-based terror group who may be coming to Texas through Mexico.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76616979&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK On the eve of a vote to end the military ban on openly gay service members, the nation's top uniformed military officer repeated his support Wednesday for repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76614092&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A native New Yorker accused of conspiring to join al-Qaida returned to the United States from Yemen after pledging allegiance to the terror group and tried to start his own "mini al-Qaida cell," a prosecutor said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76612744&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A military court is giving the government more time to decide whether to challenge the overturning of a Camp Pendleton Marine's murder conviction in a major Iraqi war crimes case.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76609721&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama's plan to send as many as 1,200 National Guard troops back to the U.S.-Mexico border quelled demands that he must do more to battle illegal immigration and drug smuggling, but advocates for tougher enforcement say the troops need authority to make detentions.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76608317&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israel's navy will stop a flotilla heading for Gaza with 10,000 tons of supplies and pro-Palestinian activists intent on breaking a three-year blockade of Gaza, officials said Wednesday, in the first definitive Israeli pledge to stop the boats.